# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Avis Budget Group WHQ
> OSHA SIR `2025065989` · 6/23/2025 · BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Plumbing augers, snakes
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Avis Budget Group WHQ
- **Location:** 150 Tomahawk Drive, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 02128
- **NAICS:** 532111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were cleaning out a vacuum pipe system using a motorized drain snake. The snake bound on an obstruction in the pipe, twisted upon itself, and wrapped around an employee's gloved right little finger. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the finger just below the nailbed, above the first joint.

---
*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*